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jema68

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Feb 15, 2014
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Hi All,

I'm buying a late 2008 Macbook Air for nostalgic reasons. I wanted first the 1,1 but since its really bad I went for the 2,1. It has already the 128 GB SSD from Apple but I like to modify it so I'm looking for a larger SSD. It looks like only 128 Gb drives are in the market now. I was thinking to try and ZIF/LIF to mSata adapter which would allow easily 256 or even larger sizes.Would this work? Many thanks.

1.8" ZIF/LIF CE HDD Hard Disk Drive SSD to 26 Pin mSATA Adapter Converter

Thanks and apologies for posting in 2 forums.
 

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Hi All,

I'm buying a late 2008 Macbook Air for nostalgic reasons. I wanted first the 1,1 but since its really bad I went for the 2,1. It has already the 128 GB SSD from Apple but I like to modify it so I'm looking for a larger SSD. It looks like only 128 Gb drives are in the market now. I was thinking to try and ZIF/LIF to mSata adapter which would allow easily 256 or even larger sizes.Would this work? Many thanks.

1.8" ZIF/LIF CE HDD Hard Disk Drive SSD to 26 Pin mSATA Adapter Converter

Thanks and apologies for posting in 2 forums.

If you are looking at the below Amazon listing, it’s using a JM20330 SATA-IDE bridge and adapting to a 40-pin ZIF IDE connection. I tried to use one of those with a MacBookAir1,1 (A1237) and never got it to work despite trying a few different mSATA SSDs.

However, if you do indeed have a MacBookAir2,1 (A1304), the hard drive interface is SATA-based and so you don’t need an active converter like that at all. The A1304 has a 24-pin LIF interface rather than the 40-pin IDE one, so that adapter wouldn’t work with an A1304 anyway.
You could check the below thread for a couple ways to convert the 24-pin LIF to something else, though some soldering will be required - nobody seems to make a LIF24 to mSATA converter (though the PCB layout wouldn’t be too difficult).
I see no reason why that wouldn’t work with a 256GB or larger SSD.
 
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